Famous Life Quotes - Page 8

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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

Abraham Lincoln

Quote from “Charles A. Dana, Recollections Of The Civil War (1898), P. 274.”

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Abraham Lincoln

Quote from “Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven”

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats

Quote from “Eleonora”

Those who dream by day
are cognizant of many things
which escape those
who dream only by night.

Edgar Allan Poe

Quote from “Tentative (First Model) Definitions Of Poetry In Complete Poems (1950)”

Poetry is an echo asking a shadow dancer to be a partner

Carl Sandburg

Quote from “The Cremation Of Sam McGee” familyfriendpoems.com/poem/72134

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

Robert W. Service

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Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.

A. A. Milne

When people show you who they are, believe them the first time

Maya Angelou

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,
- that is all
Ye know on earth,
and all ye need to know

John Keats

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If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.

Benjamin Franklin

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